Paleoclimatology News

Posted May 30, 2009:

• Ancient Volcanic Eruptions Caused Global Mass Extinction

Posted May 29, 2009:

• Lessons From The Past: Research Examines How Past Communities Coped With Climate Change

Posted May 24, 2009:

• Seeing Beyond The Invisible: Uncovering Our Planet’s Past To Help Predict Its Future

Posted May 19, 2009:

• First Evidence Of Pre-Industrial Mercury Pollution In The Andes
• From Greenhouse To Ice House: Important Role Of The Indonesian Gateway Suggested

Posted May 16, 2009:

• Peruvian Stalagmites Hold Clues To Climate Change

Posted May 7, 2009:

• Rise Of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age

Posted April 30, 2009:

• Ice Sheet Behavior Much More Volatile And Dynamic Than Previously Thought, Tahiti Corals Show

Posted April 24, 2009:

• No 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change? Wetlands Likely Source Of Methane From Ancient Warming Event

Posted April 21, 2009:

• Critical Turning Point Can Trigger Abrupt Climate Change

Posted April 17, 2009:

• Mega-Droughts In Sub-Saharan Africa Normal For Region: Droughts Likely To Worsen With Climate Change

Posted April 9, 2009:

• Earth Under Global Cooling

Posted March 31, 2009:

• New Theory On Largest Known Mass Extinction In Earth's History

Posted March 14, 2009:

• Silica Algae Reveal How Ecosystems React To Climate Changes

Posted February 27, 2009:

• Carbon Dioxide Drop And Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier To Form

Posted February 19, 2009:

• Planet Earth: Avoiding The Hothouse And The Icehouse Of The Future

Posted February 17, 2009:

• Climate 'Flickering' Ended Last Ice Age In North Atlantic Region

Posted February 10, 2009:

• Dramatic Rise In Sea Level And Its Broad Ramifications Uncovered
• Big Year For Darwin, But What Would He Make Of The Climate Change Ahead?

Posted February 3, 2009:

• Mountain Caribou's Ancient Ancestry Revealed

Posted February 2, 2009:

• Ancient Turtle Migrated From Asia To America Over Tropical Arctic

Posted January 27, 2009:

• Danube Delta Holds Answers To 'Noah's Flood' Debate
• 12,900 Years Ago: North American Comet Impact Theory Disproved

Posted January 14, 2009:

• Bacteria In Ice May Record Climate Change
• Texas State Dinosaur Facing Name Change: Case Of Mistaken Dino-Identity

Posted January 7, 2009:

• Catastrophic Coincidence: Second Ever Example Of Contemporaneous Meteorite Impact And Flood Volcanism Discovered

Posted December 30, 2008:

• Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows
• Pollen Grain Study Yields New Picture Of Ice Age

Posted December 19, 2008:

• New World Post-Pandemic Reforestation Helped Start Little Ice Age, Say Scientists

Posted December 18, 2008:

• Did Early Global Warming Divert A New Glacial Age?

Posted December 15, 2008:

• Predecessor of Cows, The Aurochs, Were Still Living In The Netherlands Around AD 600

Posted December 8, 2008:

• Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth Escape Deathly Deep Freeze

Posted December 6, 2008:

• Decline Of Roman And Byzantine Empires 1,400 Years Ago May Have Been Driven By Climate Change

Posted November 25, 2008:

• Getting Warmer? Prehistoric Climate Can Help Forecast Future Changes

Posted November 12, 2008:

• Sedimentary Records Link Himalayan Erosion Rates And Monsoon Intensity Through Time
• Ice Age Beasts In Europe: Migration Of The Woolly Rhinoceros Earlier Than Assumed

Posted November 7, 2008:

• Ancient China: Lack Of Rainfall Could Have Contributed To Social Upheaval And Fall Of Dynasties

Posted October 31, 2008:

• 'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints Of Rain Forests Under Climate Change

Posted October 10, 2008:

• Species Extinction By Asteroid A Rarity

Posted October 7, 2008:

• The Green Sahara, A Desert In Bloom

Posted October 5, 2008:

• The Earth After Us: What Legacy Will Humans Leave In The Rocks?

Posted September 15, 2008:

• Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Models

Posted September 11, 2008:

• Geologists Dig Up One Of The Largest Lakes In The World, Dammed By Ice During Last Ice Age

Posted August 28, 2008:

• Why Is Greenland Covered In Ice? Changes In Carbon Dioxide Levels Explain Transition

Posted August 23, 2008:

• New Climate Record Shows Century-Long Droughts In Eastern North America

Posted August 12, 2008:

• Humans Implicated In Prehistoric Animal Extinctions With New Evidence

Posted August 6, 2008:

• Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent

Posted August 4, 2008:

• Tracking Down Abrupt Climate Changes: Rapid Natural Cooling Occurred 12,700 Years Ago

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